In the cold war, a lawyer, James B. Donovan is recruited by the CIA and involved in an intense negotiation mission to release and exchange a CIA U-2 spy-plane pilot, Francis G. Powers. The pilot was arrested alive after his plane was shot down by the Soviet Union during a mission and stays in the company of a KGB intelligence officer, Rudolf Abel, who was arrested for espionage in the US. - synopsis from IMDB
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Directed by Steven Spielberg.
Rated 7.6 on IMDB from 216218 votes.
Runtime: 142 min.
Seen: 14 Mar 2016
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